In the last post, I wrote about finding myself leading an effort to recruit an urbanist candidate for the city council in my town. It wasn’t a task I’d planned, but I noted a vacuum, suggested that someone should fill it, and suddenly found myself leading a growing parade.

In the aftermath of elections in three Marin County supervisorial races where incumbents prevailed handsomely and West Marin’s Al Dugan notched a dismal fourth place, behind progressive third-place finisher Wendi Kallins, it is worth asking whether the coalition that birthed them still has steam.

The next municipal elections in my town are still thirteen months away. But I have a thought to offer to those of you who will soon vote on mayoral and council positions in your own communities. It may affect how you select between the candidates.